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Dictionary of American biography

by: American Council of Learned Societies

Publication date: 1943

Topics: United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries

Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons

Collection: illinoishistoryandlincoln; university_of_illinois_urbana-champaign; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Volume: 1

Editors: v. 1-3, Allen Johnson.--v. 4-7, Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone.--v. 8-20, Dumas Malone.--v. 21, Marris E. Starr,--v. 22, Robert Livingston Schuyler

"No living persons ... have biographies in the Dictionary ... [and] no persons who ... [have] not lived in the territory now known as the United States."--Introd., v. 1, p. vii

I. Abbe-Barrymore.--II. Barsotti-Brazer.--III. Brearly-Chandler.--IV. Chanfrau-Cushing.--V. Cushman-Eberle.--VI. Echols-Fraser.--VII. Fraunces-Grimké.--VIII. Grinnell-Hibbard.--IX. Hibben-Jarvis.--X. Jasper-Yarkin.--XI. Larned-MacCracken.--XII. McCrady-Millington.--XIII. Mills-Oglesby.--XIV. Oglethorpe-Plattner.--XV. Platt-Roberdeau.--XVI. Robert-Seward.--XVII. Sewell-Stevenson.--XVIII. Steward-Trowbridge.--XIX. Troye-Wentworth.--XX. Werden-Zunser.--XXI. Supplement one. [To December 31, 1935]--XXII. Supplement two. [To December 31, 1940]